Kero Kero Bonito - Picture This
Kero Kero Bonito have the strange, playful sincerity that centres all great pop music.
13th March 2015
Reviews
Warpaint - I’ll Start Believing
This might be a direct and immediate shot in the arm, but it’s still quintessentially Warpaint.
12th March 2015
Shura, East Village Arts Club, Liverpool Music Week
Pure, clean and atmospheric.
11th March 2015
Tame Impala - Let It Happen
A giant leap and a natural progression onwards, ‘Let It Happen’ is the Tame Impala comeback everyone’s been waiting for.
11th March 2015
Hinds - Davey Crockett
Twanging across the street with a jaunty spring in its step, this is definitely Davey Crockett’s favourite tribute song.
11th March 2015
Mumford & Sons - Believe
To simply write this off as the same band that came before would be folly.
9th March 2015
Shura - 2Shy
Honest songwriting meets gaudy eighties pop panache — the lonely hearts club just found its new theme tune.
9th March 2015
Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood
4 Stars
An album of revelatory qualities.
8th March 2015
Echo Lake - Era
3 Stars
Echo Lake have managed to take a slew of barely-original touch points and make something genuinely intriguing.
8th March 2015
Kendal Calling 2015
Even the cold Cumbrian rain fails to dampen the happy Kendal spirit.
8th March 2015
Cancer Bats - Searching For Zero
2 Stars
Somehow the pieces don’t quite appear to fit.
7th March 2015
Fyfe - Control
3 Stars
A divine celebration of ordinary heartaches.
7th March 2015
The Libertines, Django Django and Eagles of Death Metal play day two of Open’er 2015
Gdynia festival welcomes giant inflatable balls, disorienting strobes and shameless riffs.
7th March 2015
Laura Welsh - Soft Control
2 Stars
‘Soft Control’ disappoints in the fact that a clearly talented singer/songwriter seems strayed from the path.
6th March 2015
Will Butler - Policy
4 Stars
Every song has its own character, with each one further clarifying Will as a great musician and songwriter.
6th March 2015
Swim Deep get ‘a little weird’ at London live return
Yet, as Ridley Scott would appreciate, it may be alien; but that sure don’t stop it from being bloody incredible.
4th March 2015
Speedy Ortiz - The Graduates
Give Speedy Ortiz wizard gowns, mortarboards and scrolls; ‘The Graduates’ marks their graduation to the big leagues.
4th March 2015
Courtney Barnett - Depreston
With her latest, C‑Barn does ‘I just don’t give a fuck’ Pavement-esque guitar noodling perfectly.
3rd March 2015
Clarence Clarity - No Now
4 Stars
‘No Now’ will polarise opinions: it’s loud, busy, sublime and uncompromising.
2nd March 2015
The Magic Gang - No Fun
With their latest The Magic Gang are laying down the cards, and ‘No Fun’ is a veritable rabbit in a hat.
2nd March 2015
Drenge - Never Awake
A murky, sludge-grinding highlight from ‘Undertow’.
2nd March 2015
Marina and The Diamonds - FORGET
Crisp, hard-hitting pop with all the bite of a ripe Granny Smith apple, ‘FORGET’ — true to name — is unforgettable.
2nd March 2015
Black Yaya - Black Yaya
3 Stars
An impressive debut.
1st March 2015
Vessels - Dilate
4 Stars
Vessels resist the twin urges to oversimplify or over-complicate.
1st March 2015
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.